On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need to load firmware to a USB camera via fxload. The problem is that
> fxload requires a path such as /dev/bus/usb/001/002 in order to load the
> firmware. So I wrote a udev rules file to do just that, however, the only
> useful variable I can obtain now is %k, and I get something in the form of
> usbdev1.2_ep00
That's not a USB _device_, it's a (not interesting) USB endpoint.
> which I then need to parse in some regexp magic in order to
> extract the bus and dev num in order to construct the full path. I used to
> be able to pull devnum and busnum ($env{BUSNUM}) but not anymore (using
> openSUSE 11).
That still works.
> Now I have a loader script that parses %k and constructs the
> path. But this is only a hack and not a real solution, is there a way to get
> the full path so I can pass it to fxload without resorting to these
> desperate measures? Appreciate your help.
Why not just use $DEVNAME?
RUN+="/sbin/fxload <firmware file option> -D $env{DEVNAME}"
Kay
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